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New York Telephone Company building explosion: 3 October 1962: Stationary power United States: New York City, New York: 23: 94 [61] PNKA CC 5002 (Bendul Explosion) 11 April 1968 Locomotive Indonesia: Purwakarta, West Java: 6 1 USS Basilone: 5 February 1973: Marine (military) United States: 7: Deutsche Reichsbahn 01 1516: 27 November 1977 ...
BLEVE–fireball, 2008 Toronto propane explosion The following is a list of boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion (BLEVE) accidents. It shows whether the accident occurred during dangerous goods transportation or at a fixed facility, the accident origin (e.g., storage, process reactor, rail tank car, tank truck), the material involved, its amount, the number of fatalities, and whether a ...
Boiler explosions are common in sinking ships once the hot boiler touches cold sea water, as the sudden cooling of the hot metal causes it to crack; for instance, when the SS Benlomond was torpedoed by a U-boat, the torpedoes and resulting boiler explosion caused the ship to go down in two minutes, leaving Poon Lim as the only survivor in a ...
The water boiler, which was installed when the building was built in the 1990s, exploded overnight Wednesday, Nov. 22, into Thursday, Nov. 23, Thanksgiving morning. ... A boiler explosion at ...
Jul. 22—The June explosion which killed a contractor and destroyed a 1.5 million gallon water tank happened after a critical safety-check was not performed before welding started, according to a ...
Two Houston homeowners are seeking answers after a municipal water tank burst, flooding their homes. With insurance claims denied and the utility district citing government immunity, they may need ...
2010 South Kivu fuel tank explosion in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: 228: 20 October 1916: Russian battleship Imperatritsa Mariya magazine explosion 220: 11 December 1944: Gunpowder explosion on the train doing Japanese military and civilian transportation, Itoman, Okinawa, Japan [18] [better source needed] 219: 25 June 2017
Accident – explosion New York City, New York: Boiler of Westfield II exploded at South Ferry in Manhattan: 45–60 1871 W.R. Norman: Boiler explosion: Mississippi River: Fatalities estimated 45+ 1912 Tornado outbreak of April 27–29, 1912: Tornado outbreak Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana: 45 1927 Bath School disaster: mass murder Bath Township ...